s/o Do you carve your turkey in the kitchen or at the table

[disykat]

This came up in the Thanksgiving guest thread. A poster mentioned disappointment that the bird wasn't carved at the table. Others of us thought that only happened on tv. So what happens at your house? Does the bird get carved up in the kitchen and put out on platters or does the bird come out of the oven and get carved up at the Thanksgiving table?

 

[HopperFan]

RE: the turkey and so many comments on the other thread .......
....... I would venture most Thanksgivings are not a Norman Rockwell experience at all,
even if your memory thinks they were.

 

[soccerdad72]

To add on to what I mentioned on the other thread, I carve in the kitchen and then toss the bones and carcass into a stock pot with all the other ingredients to start turkey stock.

 

[Klayfish]

Even when we were doing "formal" dinners with extended family, it was always the kitchen. Now with just us, it's definitely kitchen, and we cut as we eat.

 

[luvsJack]

Our turkey is fried so not going to be that big roasted bird anyway. So it is carved in the kitchen. But my house, dil’s, mil’s and mom’s are all open from the kitchen to the dining room so it’s where everyone is anyway.

When both my parents were alive, dad always carved the turkey. Always at the end of the bar which was between the kitchen and dining room. And everyone sort of gathered around. So it was sort of/semi Norman Rockwell-ish. He had to be where there was a plug in for the electric knife.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Definitely in the kitchen. I make a mess when I carve and it's better that I can just mess up the counter and not a nicely set table.

 

[mjkacmom]

In the kitchen removing the breasts first and slicing.

 

[Micca]

. I would venture most Thanksgivings are not a Norman Rockwell experience at all,

I wonder when Norman was growing up if his parents were always telling him to get that smelly paint away from the dinner table?

 

[tvguy]

Kitchen. No room on the table.

 

[torene03]

Dad carved the "roast beast" at the table. But there were only four of us, so two people got legs, and the others had the white meat. Once the meal was over we'd take all the meat off the turkey and separate it (white and dark meat) for leftovers.

 

[Diznygrl]

Well, there is no dining room so the table is IN the kitchen, but no, it doesn't get carved at the table. It gets carved on the counter and then brought the three feet over to the table, LOL.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Always in the kitchen and always in advance of the arrival of guests. Often roasted the night before. Carve and put in casserole dish and pour some chicken or turkey broth over it. Reheat in the broth and then place on serving platter.

One Thanksgiving decades ago the host tried carving at the table while everyone was seated. It was a total fiasco.

And why did the man have the so-called honor of carving the turkey? In most cases those men couldn't even boil water.

 

[Mirielle]

My stepson is the only one I've seen carve the turkey at the table. Wish he wouldn't continue to do it. Far too time consuming after people are seated and other food is getting cold. Takes a while to carve for 12 people!

 

[Julie's Haircut]

RE: the turkey and so many comments on the other thread .......
....... I would venture most Thanksgivings are not a Norman Rockwell experience at all,
even if your memory thinks they were.

Who wants that?.....

....when you can have this?

 

[Kitty 34]

In the kitchen

 

[Hikergirl]

 

[Disneylover99]

Standing at the kitchen counter. I could never sit at a table and carve.

 

[Squirlz]

In the kitchen for the simple reason that we have no table!

 

[Cheetie]

Kitchen. I just finished carving and cleaning up.

 

[lovin'fl]

Spin off question...does anyone make turkey today instead of tomorrow? Someone I know just mentioned that their turkey is done already and I thought that odd.